All American Cowboy Grill or The Art of the Tart

All American Cowboy Grill: Sizzlin' Recipes from the Word's Greatest Cowboys

Author: Cheryl Rogers Barnett

The All-American Cowboy Grill will blaze a new trail through the Old West as it partners savory recipes from American cowboys and cowgirls of movie, TV, rodeo, and music fame with dozens of photos and sidebars of related interest.

Riding shotgun with the recipes of the celebrities will be mouth-watering recipes rustled up by cooks from some of the top real-life ranches of the western United States.

This time around the call to "come and get it!" will have the cooks focusing on recipes for the home and patio grill. The bulk of the recipes will feature entrees, the star of the grill, but those recipes will be complemented with a variety of other dishes that can be prepared on the grill, including vegetables, breads, and desserts, and an assortment of foods that would accompany a grilled supper such as cool, cool beverages and side dishes.

The book will have 20 to 40 short sidebars with real western history as well as western pop culture trivia from the movies and TV. There will be short articles on famous western tourist sites such as The Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, The Roy Roger and Dale Evans Museum, The Cowboy Hall of Fame, and The Cowgirl Hall of Fame. The book will have 200 recipes and 100 photos.

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The Art of the Tart: Savory and Sweet

Author: Tamasin Day Lewis

Tarts are the perfect self-contained treat, a delectable indulgence. In this special collection, Tamasin Day-Lewis provides classic recipes and new twists for an assortment of savory and sweet tarts. She explores the rituals of their preparation, from rolling to primping and patching to whisking, all of which make tarts the most satisfying of foods — to make and to eat.

The home chef is taught to prepare a variety of crusts from easy-to-follow directions. The most difficult step is trying to figure out which of the mouth-watering fillings to use. Included is everything from Sweet Corn and Spring Onion Tart to Rhubard Meringue Pie.

Beautifully designed, featuring more than fifty full-color photographs, and sumptuously filled, The Art of the Tart is sure to be the perfect addition to any cookbook collection.

Publishers Weekly

Tarts, when done well, are gorgeous creations--their fillings displayed in buttery crust like jewels shown on velvet. Day-Lewis (The English Woman's Kitchen; West of Ireland Summers: A Cookbook) does not disappoint; in addition to delectable recipes and luxurious photos, her prose itself is exquisite. Even the most jaded palate might be tempted with her description of the much-maligned Quiche Lorraine "with a buttery pastry and an unctuously creamy, bacony, barely wobbling interior." These tarts are rich (lots of butter, cream and eggs), simple and wholesome, prepared in straightforward ways with uncomplicated steps. As Day-Lewis explains, they are not "state-of-the-art, designer-dream, fashionable" fare (even if she tells us that Julia Roberts loves the Treacle Tart), but rather "foods to console and please on the highest order." The favorite tarts of well-known chefs appear regularly throughout the pages, tweaked and appropriately credited. Classics such as Onion Tart, Plain Apple Tart and that English favorite, Bakewell Tart, coexist with more flamboyant fare, such as Fennel, Taleggio and Cardamom Tart, Mjuk Mandeltarta (soft almond tart) and a "beauteous, sluttish, fall of the Roman Empire" Roast Fig and Honey Tart with Cointreau. With quiet sophistication, Day-Lewis presents a beautiful and useful book to savor on many levels. (Mar. 9) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Day-Lewis (yes, she's Daniel's sister) is a well-known British food writer whose work has appeared here in Food & Wine and other magazines. She has a wonderful, somewhat breezy style, and the recipes in her new book are mouthwatering: Smoked Bacon and Garlic Tart, Fennel, Taleggio, and Cardamom Tart, Roast Fig Tart with Cointreau (which she describes as "a beauteous and sluttish, Fall of the Roman Empire kind of dessert"). In addition to her own recipes, there is a section called "Other People's Tarts," recipes from chefs, writers, and good home cooks. The text is lavishly illustrated with color photographs, but the book is a comfortable size for actually using in the kitchen (rather than leaving on the coffee table). Highly recommended. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.